Seriously.......... I'd be glad to educate you. Starting with the Amarr being more of less my speciality. That being said there is something you need to understand first.

Right and wrong mean very little in New Eden. The four major factions all have glaring flaws that set them apart form their counterparts and contemporary examples of similar cultures.


For instance, and to clarify you, the Amarr are not a racist people who took advantage of a situation to institute racism 'again.' What they are is a theocratic empire composed of many trillions of believers all of whom agree that it is their divine mandate to unite the cluster as one people and that slavery is but one of many ways to achieve that unity.

The Amarr were more or less , though they don't know this, the descendants of religious colonists who passed through the EVE gate and were thrown into a social and technological dark age when the gate collapsed scattering them across the surface of a temperate desert world known as Athra.

They experiences immediate persecution for their beliefs during the earliest years of recorded history being forced from the main continental drift known as Assimia to a small isle known as Amarr Island where they split into groups led by Warlords all of whom answered to a united church. Eventually one warlord, Amarr Asakura united the factions and formed the first Empire, establishing a medieval nobility and peasant class.

United as one Empire the newly forged Amarr took to the main continent where the city states of the Udorians lay and began to wage intermittent wars with them slowly claiming more and more of the continent. The Amarr then formed an alliance with another people, the Khanid, and waged a joint conflict against the Udorians until eventually the last few resisting cities fell to the Amarr all before the modern age of automatic weapons.

What the Amarr however were to do with an entire people post war having formerly pressed Udorian sailors into service in their armies was then the logical step. Using an obscure reference from the Scriptures, the Amarrian religious text, the precedent was set that the Amarr could morally enslave the Udorians and rule over them. They did this for a time until it became well practiced that after several generations of good service slave were to be freed and made full Amarrian citizens.

This trend persisted well into the era of space flight where the Amarr eventually discovered other fragments of humanity on other far flung worlds. These people they too enslaved, easily dominating them with technological supremacy. It was here the concept of Reclaiming, a religious war of conquest became a powerful driving force in Amarr culture, with them believing that it was their divine role to gather the fragments of humankind and mold them into one people. It was also at this time the Amarr began cruelly experimenting on the captives in what was known as the Human Endurance Project.

Anyhow this persisted into the Unchallenged Era where the Amarr encountered the Minmatar, a people who had reached space flight technology and called themselves the Minmatar Empire. This was the first time the Amarr had ever truly encountered another race like the Minmatar and capitalising like you said on a planet wide storm the Amarr flooded the system, crushed the resistance, and depopulated entire worlds taking billions of Minmatar as slaves. They did this every few years crushing Matari technological developments each time.

Eventually the Amarr encountered the Gallente and the Caldari, the former who loathed the practice of slavery and conspired with a fifth known entity the Jovian Directorate to liberate the Minmatar.

Unknowingly the Amarr manoeuvred themselves into a corner declaring war on the Jovians, a vastly superior technological entity, fighting a battle at Vak' Atioth where an entire 200 ship squadron of the Imperial Navy equipped with the latest technologies fought Jovian Frigates, Cruisers, and a lone Mothership. The Amarrian fleet was annihilated to a man their ships ordered to hold their ground no matter the cost though destroying one in every three Jovian vessels.

In the wake of that defeat across the cluster billions of Matari slaves rose up against the Amarr with Jovian and Gallentean aid starting a bloody war that was known of the Great Rebellion. Millions of Amarr died. Hundred of Millions of Minmatar perished as well.

If we skip ahead to the modern age we exist in the Amarr are actually a much more mild people than they were. The role of Holders, the Amarrian nobility, was reaffirmed as a role of caring for slaves so that they could transition into Amarrian society while the Emperor of the time Heideran VIII declared that the act of 'slave taking' was to be outlawed.

Nowadays more reasonable heads prevail in the Empire and slave taking it at an all time low barring the illegal actions of slavers whom the Amarr punish fiercely. The Amarr however still fight their war against the Minmatar who are unwilling to let the past die and were recently subject to an attack by Minmatar fleets whom broke inter-empire law only to have that fleet smashed aside over Sarum Prime.

Understanding the Amarr means looking at them from their perspective. They do not and have never seen slavery as wrong, nor is it an institution solely designed to benefit from a cheap labour force. They genuinely believe that by bringing the Minmatar into the Empire they are doing them good and slowly helping them understand God.

More over they would be considered arrogant by our standards but that is due to the widely held belief that as Amarrians they are a chosen people charged with ruling the masses. However ironically life in the Empire is about as normal as one could get.